Ca1 pyramidal neuron: reduction model (Marasco et al. 2012)

"... Here we introduce a new, automatic and fast method to map realistic neurons into equivalent reduced models running up to >40 times faster while maintaining a very high accuracy of the membrane potential dynamics during synaptic inputs, and a direct link with experimental observables. The mapping of arbitrary sets of synaptic inputs, without additional fine tuning, would also allow the convenient and efficient implementation of a new generation of large-scale simulations of brain regions reproducing the biological variability observed in real neurons, with unprecedented advances to understand higher brain functions."
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Marasco A, Limongiello A, Migliore M (2012) Fast and accurate low-dimensional reduction of biophysically detailed neuron models. Sci Rep2:928 [PubMed]